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• After year of pushing employees out, OPM embraces familiar recruiting playbook - June 10, 2026

• In order for agencies to attain top talent, Office of Personnel Director Scott Kupor pointed to job websites specific to college students, multi-agency position postings and tech recruiting programs — all strategies that the Biden administration also employed.

  Sean Michael Newhouse, Government Executive

  President Donald Trump came into his second term with the goal of downsizing the civil service, and his administration in nearly one-and-a-half years has more than erased gains to the government workforce that occurred under former President Joe Biden. Despite the emphasis on removing or otherwise pushing out agency staffers, Office of Personnel Director Scott Kupor said that he is seeking to streamline the process for bringing people into government.

  In fact, several of the proposals he laid out at a Tuesday event hosted by Axios are similar to efforts Biden officials pursued to improve agency hiring.

  To read the full article, click here.

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